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I've had stuff like this happen too, and always wondered if they really leaked my data or were just notifying everyone whose data they possibly leaked.
I think the argument is "if they didn't retain your data, it couldn't have possibly leaked"
Ahh so that's what they mean at the reception when they take photo of my ID and say "it's for the police". So that any police anywhere can freely download it at any time!
While visiting Italy I've had the hotel photocopy my ID. I've researched and the legal requirement for the hotel is to fill a form on the police website, nothing more. While doing the checkout I've pressed them on the reason for keeping the photocopy ("is it for identity theft? "), the duration they were going to keep the copy etc. Basic info they were bound to disclose because of GDPR _before_ the data processing, w…
Says... this perpetrator?
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There are various reasons. What if it turned out someone was using a stolen ID or a fake ID, or the ID didn't match the face, or it wasn't even an ID? You'd want to be able to see how your process missed it. The real problem is that there aren't many options for real authentication over getting people to upload pictures of high-value credentials. Now every service has to be a security expert, like encrypting the imag…
> You'd want to be able to see how your process missed it. An incredible risk to take on someone elses behalf, for personal gain. Don't worry, market forces will surely fix this, no need for regulation.
We are decades beyond the days where the waitress uses a credit card imprinter to copy your credit card so the restaurant can charge your credit card later, yet that's still basically the state of our tech when it comes to authentication and payment.
Not even KYC institutions have better tech. You still upload a scan of your high value creds, maybe with your face in frame.
Narrator: it was, unfortunately, not a wakeup call...
Narrator: it was, unfortunately, not a wakeup call...
Much as passports are very important for proving identity etc, people who travel have had their passport scanned, photographed or photocopied by pretty much every hotel they've stayed in. I'm not sure the shoebox in the backroom in Koh Samui with the photocopies in constitutes good storage hygiene protocols. How that doesn't turn into rampant identity theft I don't know, or maybe it does? Not, happily, for me... yet.
I had my identity stolen this way before. Since then, I do not allow the scans anymore. It is a dreadful feeling showing up to a hotel not knowing if you'll get turned away at the last minute because you take a stand for your privacy. So far, none have been willing to lose the bookings, but I know sooner or later my luck will run out and I'll have to find last minute accomodations.
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If these kinds of breaches were actually costly, then people would indeed treat PII as toxic. But they aren't. The media brouhaha blows over within a week or so, and things are fine again. Leaking PII should be very, very expensive, and then this idiocy would stop.
> Leaking PII should be very, very expensive It should be criminal to leak PII, and company leadership should face imprisonment.
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If these kinds of breaches were actually costly, then people would indeed treat PII as toxic. But they aren't. The media brouhaha blows over within a week or so, and things are fine again. Leaking PII should be very, very expensive, and then this idiocy would stop.
> Leaking PII should be very, very expensive It should be criminal to leak PII, and company leadership should face imprisonment.
There's always a budding authoritarian ready to trample freedom of expression for the common good.
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That was the measured response to the attempted ridicule (that's not nice too). Or, more politely, a suggestion to post arguments that are relevant.
You were ridiculed because I never stated the EU was a country. I said I didn't know how things work in the EU, not that everywhere you go in the EU it would be the same (in fact, I explicitly stated, I did not know how the system worked in Spain specifically to denote national differences in law in the EU). Your malicious use of feigned lack of reading comprehension merits the response. No surprise you got back what…
Look, non sequitur doesn't hold as much as you think it does.
And I'd also like to point to something you missed:
>> *attempted* ridicule.
_If_ their arguments were sound and relevant, maybe. But, well, they weren't.
Note I wasn't even responding to you, just replied to someone else seemingly conflating EU with Eurozone, trying to make fun of one phrase out of several statements, omitting the key "EU is a loose federation".
Now I fully expect @bluebarbet descent again and either chastise me for being amused at your comment, or tell you off for rudely implying malicious intent that wasn't there.
Especially since I wasn't even talking to you right now, and from your first comment's first sentence it could be clearly inferred you expect some sort of the federal policy, and this is what I was trying to address concisely, in a good faith.
Do with it whatever you want, I wasted too much time on that already anyway.
Have a good day, sir or madam.